• RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      6 days ago

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2004_Fallujah_ambush&diffonly=true

      The four armed contractors, Scott Helvenston, Jerry Zovko, Wesley Batalona, and Mike Teague, were killed and dragged from their vehicles. Their bodies were beaten and burned, with their charred corpses then dragged through the city streets before being hanged over a bridge crossing the Euphrates River.

      • CascadeOfLight [he/him]
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        6 days ago

        The ambush led to the First Battle of Fallujah, a U.S.-led operation to retake control of the city. However, the battle was halted mid-way for political reasons, an outcome which commentators have described as insurgent victory.

        rage-cry "W-we would've won if we weren't stabbed in the back! They didn't win, that's the lying fake news media!"

        • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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          6 days ago

          On 1 May 2004, the United States withdrew from Fallujah, as Lieutenant General James Conway announced that he had unilaterally decided to turn over any remaining operations to the newly formed Fallujah Brigade - a Sunni security force formed by the CIA

          the group dissolved and had turned over all the supplied weapons to the insurgency by September